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	I Love This Game
	Sabine Auken
	Hear the top-ranked woman player in the world describe her favourite moments in her bridge career, and share her philosophy of the game. This is my personal favorite of the expert biographies on the market.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Matchpoint Tricks
	Ib Axelsen and Villy Dam
	A set of 58 declarer play problems highlighting the matchpoint pairs decision-making process. A few of the hands would be played different at IMPs (e.g., safety play vs. best chance for maximum results) but most of the material is also relevant to all forms of play -- when your contract is secure, finding your best chance for an overtrick is worthwhile at all forms of scoring, though the reward is smaller at IMPs and total points.
	$9.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Off-Road Declarer Play: Unusual Ways to Play a Bridge Hand
	David Bird
	Fourteen chapters of advice on how to handle unpleasant problems in the play of the hand when the easy "textbook" solutions don't apply: ways to reach an apparently entryless dummy, to unblock blocked suits, to cope with bad trump breaks, to rectify the count for a squeeze when the obvious way of giving up a trick is dangerous, and more.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Somehow We Landed in 6NT
	David Bird
	A collection of hands where real experts and not-so-experts bid 6NT and then had to find a line of play that gave them a chance of salvaging the board.
	$19.95		By special order only

	Maastrict Challenge
	Tim Bourke
	A set of challenging bridge puzzles drawn from actual deals played at the Maastricht world championships.
	$15.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Great Hands I Wish I Had Played
	Sally and Raymond Brock
	When's the last time you said to yourself, "gee, I wish I could play that last hand over again!"? You'll feel better knowing that experts say the same thing to themselves more often than you'd think. The Brocks tattle on themselves, showing dozens of real-life hands, and showing how they should have been played and why. (And yes, they confess what really happened at the table on each deal, too.) Warning: Out of Print! These are the last two copies I am likely to ever have.
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	How the Experts Win at Bridge
	Burt Hall and Lynn Rose-Hall
	Each chapter highlights the key tools experts use to get the most out of their game: from judging what contract to reach and using the Law of Total Tricks in competitive auctions, to studying the bidding and the dummy to decide on a plan of attack for the defence at trick one. Perhaps most valuable of all, each chapter includes highlights from other bridge books and has a list of recommended books for further study. This one book is like a Reader's Digest version of a complete bridge library!
	$16.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Advanced Bridge Bidding for the 21st Century
	Max Hardy
	All the bells and whistles of modern 2/1 as played and taught by Max right up to the time of his death in 2002. This was his last book. Additional bidding tools to complement the material in "Standard Bridge Bidding for the 21st Century."
	$20.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Misplay These Hands With Me
	Mark Horton
	A book in the Reese "over-the-shoulder" style... featuring entirely hands which were played wrong by good players, followed by an explanation of how the correct play could have been spotted in time with more careful thought.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Mysterious Multi: How to Play It, How to Play Against It
	Mark Horton and Jan van Cleef
	Complete coverage of all the most common variations of the Multicolored 2D opening. In the same style as Andy Stark's volume on Don't be afraid of conventions, learn to cope with them, and even embrace them and play them yourself!
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Building a Bidding System
	Roy Hughes
	The theory behind why some conventions are good and others are bad: why lower bids should show a broader range of hands that higher bids - and how much broader that should be; how to construct a relay system; and other advice for the serious tinkerer with systems.
	$17.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Card by Card: Adventures at the Bridge Table
	Roy Hughes
	Watch over Canadian expert Roy Hughes's shoulder as he explains his thought processes on some tricky hands, and you too can learn to think like an expert!
	$18.95		By special order only

	Eddie Kantar Teaches Advanced Bridge Defense
	Eddie Kantar
	Continues on from where Eddie Kantar Teaches Modern Bridge Defense leaves off. Approachable and entertaining explanation of the fine points of the game. (Do you know what the difference is between playing K-then-Q and K-then-J, when you are leading from KQJxx?)
	$23.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Roman Keycard Blackwood: The Final Word
	Eddie Kantar
	The fifth and (he says) final edition of Eddie Kantar's famous book on Roman Keycard Blackwood. Go beyond "5 clubs shows 0 or 3." This book covers every facet of RKC: how do you ask for the queen of trumps after a 5C or 5D response? Should you show the number of kings or specific kings? 0314 or 1430? When, if ever, does RKC not apply? What suit is trump in ambiguous auctions? Excellent resource for serious partnerships wanting to milk the most out of their ace-asking.
	$22.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Bridge Philosopher
	James Kauder
	Newly released edition of Kauder's classic book Creative Card Play. My personal favorite of all "collections of bridge deals" books and I am delighted to see it back in print. Every one of the hands has a logical but non-textbook solution; he explains the clues from the bidding, play, and his reading of the opponents' habits that guide him to the winning line.
	$18.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Return of the Bridge Philosopher
	James Kauder
	Another bookful of stories in the same style as The Bridge Philosopher, fifty more entertaining stories from Jimmy Kauder's adventures in the tournament and rubber bridge worlds.
	$18.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Kelsey on Squeeze Play
	Hugh Kelsey
	Get a classic book at 20% off! Retails for $36.00! A reprint of Kelsey's four classic books on simple, double, triple, and strip squeezes, bound as one volume. An abundance of examples of hands drawn from real play, and a classification of different types of threats and guards. Great if you like collections of interesting hands, or if you prefer to "learn by example" at a laid-back pace how squeezes work.
	$29.99		Available now and ready to ship

	Logical Bridge Play
	Hugh Kelsey
	A collection of hands to hone your ability to find the winning line of play as declarer, based on deductions from the bidding and previous play. Starts out with common basic situations like "West didn't open the bidding, and has shown up with 9 HCP already, so East surely has the one ace I haven't seen yet" and "West's opening lead was the three of clubs, so he must not have an honour-sequence in any of the unbid suits" and shows how the experts can get so many of their seemingly blind guesses right.
	$16.99		Available now and ready to ship

	The Notrump Zone
	Danny Kleinman
	When should you exercise your judgment to open 1NT on a semibalanced hand? Are some point ranges better than others? It's all in here. Which conventions beyond Stayman and Jacoby Transfers should you use? He gives three separate answers to this one, depending on whether you and your partner want a simple but functional system or the "most detailed system money can buy."
	$18.95		By special order only

	Persistent Human Bridge Errors
	Danny Kleinman and Nick Straguzzi
	Further tales of Chthonic, the perfect bridge-playing computer, and the trouble he has making sense of his human partners, teammates, and opponents. Not just stories - each story has a moral, a lesson about mistakes mere mortals frequently make at the table. Lots of material that didn't appear in The Bridge World!
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Principle of Restricted Talent
	Danny Kleinman and Nick Straguzzi
	The adventures of a wisecracking bridge-playing robot and his inventors. Logical solutions to dozens of very difficult cardplay and defense problems, mixed into a series of short stories. One of the best recent contributions to the "bridge novel" genre.
	$15.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Play With the Champions
	Ron Klinger
	Rare out-of-print collection of bridge hands played by experts in international tournaments.
	$15.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Power of Shape
	Ron Klinger
	Understand how your distribution impacts the value of your face cards. General theory, advice on when it is right to over- or under-bid, and chapters on how to handle modern bidding tools like the splinter bid. Currently out of stock, but I'm trying to locate more copies of this excellent book!
	$16.99		By special order only

	I Fought the Law of Total Tricks
	Mike Lawrence and Anders Wirgren
	Larry Cohen's Law of Total Tricks books were among the most influential bridge writings of the 1990s. But the law is not absolutely perfect - an extra trump isn't ALWAYS an extra winner for your side - and Lawrence and Wirgren discuss an alternative way to evaluate your playing strength, a modified point-count method.
	$17.95		By special order only

	Encyclopedia of Card Play Techniques
	Guy Levé
	Perhaps the most complete catalogue of declarer-play techniques ever assembled. It opens with a summary of planning the play, then describes and shows an example of every known declarer play maneuver, from the mundane like suit establishment and the different kinds of finesses, through all sorts of endplays and coups to two dozen different kinds of trump squeezes. A great reference for the serious student of the game. List price $34.95! A fantastic collection of hands; I'd hate to see the cover price keep you from reading it.
	$29.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge Probability and Information
	Robert MacKinnon
	Learn the math behind the simple rules like "eight ever, nine never" and "finesse into the preemptor." The Principle of Vacant Spaces, the Principle of Restricted Choice, and much more. Great emphasis placed on how to think about the hand as a whole, rather than merely looking at suits in isolation to find the best chance.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Competitive Bidding in the 21st Century
	Marshall Miles
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	$16.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Inferences at Bridge
	Marshall Miles
	Learn how to turn the opponents' bids and plays against them, by taking advantage of that extra information to help you decide what to bid and how to plan your own play and defense.
	$18.95		By special order only

	Modern Constructive Bidding
	Marshall Miles
	An expert gives his opinion on which modern conventions are useful and which aren't. All the popular conventions and system choices are covered: 2/1 Game forcing or not? 1NT forcing or semi-forcing? Fourth suit forcing one round or to game? You may not agree with all of Miles's opinions but he will provide you with food for thought to help you make your own system decisions. One of the very few sources in print to cover some modern conventions like XYZ and Bart.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	My System: The Unbalanced Diamond
	Marshall Miles
	Marshall Miles describes his own preferred bidding system, featuring a 1D opening that promises a minimum opening and an unbalanced hand without a 5-card major, natural 1H and 1S openings limited to 15 HCP, a weak 1NT opener, and an artificial 1C opening covering 15-20 point hands, with a Standard-American-like 2C opening. Halfway between Standard and a club system, like nothing else you've played against, but all General Convention Chart-legal and playable in ACBL tournaments.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Matchpoint Defense
	Jim Priebe
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	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Thinking on Defense: the Art of Visualization in Bridge
	Jim Priebe
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	$15.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Cuebidding at Bridge: a Modern Approach
	Ken Rexford
	The most detailed coverage of modern "Italian style" cuebidding in print. Rexford has some innovative ideas about using the space between 2 and 3 of your major for cuebidding after an auction like 1H-2C-2D-2H if you use the 2/1GF system. If you prefer the traditional "aces first" style of cuebids, I recommend Ron Klinger's Cuebidding to Slams.
	$19.95		By special order only

	Beat the Experts at Bridge
	Danny Roth
	A collection of 88 hands published in books and newspaper columns that were incorrectly analyzed by the original author. Get to enjoy a laugh at the expense of your favorite columnists and learn even more about the game while you do.
	$20.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Challenge Your Declarer Play
	Danny Roth
	A collection of 60 declarer play problems. Danny is careful not to give away the winning line by leading you up to the key trick and asking what card to play. The problems reinforce the importance of making a plan at trick one: count your winners and losers, carefully choose your goal and find the line of play most likely to enable you to succeed. A steal at $9.95, compared to most recently published quiz books!
	$9.95		Available now and ready to ship

	How Good is your Bridge?
	Danny Roth
	An outstanding collection of declarer play and defense problems. The book is divided into four equal quarters: instructional declarer practice hands, a declarer play quiz, instructional defense practice hands, and a defense quiz. Excellent material for both matchpoint and IMP/rubber bridge players: he takes time to discuss when a safety play is available and whether or not it should be taken.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Weak Notrump: How to Play It, How to Play Against It
	Andy Stark
	The complete guide to the 12-14 notrump opening. "How to Play It" covers transfer-style responses, two-way stayman, adjustments to the rest of your bidding system, coping with interference, and more: "How To Play Against It" discusses reasons why you should defend differently vs. strong and weak notrumps, and offers both a simple and a scientific defense to try. You may also be interested in Mark Horton's companion volume on the Multicolored 2D opening.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge Out of School
	Bill Townsend
	A novel, weaving together the lives of four marginally competent schoolteachers, a corrupt bridge federation official, and a blackmailed lawyer. Mixed in with lots of clever declarer play and defense problems, of course.
	$16.00		By special order only

	Defense at Trick One
	David Weiss
	A challenging book, covering estimating declarer's likely winners and losers, interpreting partner's lead, and choosing the goal for the defence. Also, a rare source of information about "parity leads" vs. suit contracts. These go a step further than third-and-fifth leads, highest card you can afford from an even number and lowest from an odd number. More distributional information, though sometimes less high-card information, than standard leads.
	$16.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Matchpoints
	Kit Woolsey
	A collection of essays on how matchpoint bidding, play, and defense is different from rubber bridge and team games. Topics range from how to choose between 3NT and 4 of a major when you have an 8-card fit, to some controversial suggestions on how often to play Moysian fits.
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

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